Sentence examples for highest police from inspiring English sources

PARIS — France's highest police official warned on Wednesday of a significant and "specific" risk of a terrorist attack on French soil from Al Qaeda's North African affiliate.

After the bombing, Mr Le Grange presented Gen Coetzee, Mr de Kock, Mr Williamson and others with the highest police award for bravery.

It also has one of the highest police-to-citizen ratios in the nation.

Data from Governing shows that the city has the fifth highest police-officer-to-citizen ratio in the nation, and the pensions he negotiated with the police and firemen's unions remain a weight on the city's shaky finances.

Tensions between the two groups ran high; police acted as a buffer between them for hours.

"Higher police numbers can mean a rise in reported crime," he wrote in the Times.

"There will be a very high police presence regardless (but) you may well expect to see higher visibility".

He credited an unusual campaign from higher police officials pressing his department into trying to apprehend the perpetrators.

Larger, busier stations also have a higher police presence, so more offences are likely to be recorded".

Asked how the new rules would be enforced, Gay said a higher police presence would catch cyclists and drivers.

Even though the number is high, police point out that 1995, with 29 homicides, had the highest numbers in the past two decades.